The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-17
Ghn G,ttdldQenGer
wnEELIvd, ". VA, MARCH II, 1881.
Sorry, bu, 1t Cnu't be Helped.

Sorry, but It Can't be Helped.
Some OF tho INTgLLiogNcER's Republican
contemporaries through the State arc not
satisfied with this newspapers way Of
dealing with The Senatorial contest; If
they had been charged with the manage
ment Of the 1vrELLfdEScER they would
have chosen some other way 10 insure the
doleat OF Mr.. Camden. We can easily
imagine how they leol about 1t, and We
would that wo could do something to
assuage their grisi.
We don't feel quite so much cut up
about all thia "a we might wore it
not that 1t has been tho fate OF the
INrxLLldEScEn to be often misunder.
stood and sometimes misrepresented.
About tho time the Democratic
party WAS embarking in tho export
ment OF a free government founded on
slavery, there was 80 great dissent here.
abouts from the views OF the INTELLIeEN,
CEN that some oil tho critics, not leea toler-
ant than some OF this day, thought that
hanging to a %lamp.post WAS the only way
to correct the moral vision Of no perverse
acoucorn.
When the war was over the lNrELLI.
oENcgR was Of those who had the good
fortune to find it out, and who hold 1t only
neighbosly and right to say 80, and try to
get started again as cttizens Of one State
and one country. There were Republic
cans who, being against any 'lot up" have
never quite let up on the IN%TELLluENCER
for being in advance OF them on the right
liue. They we're quito certain then that
the INrELLIdEEcgR was not loyal to the
Republican party.
In its opposition to a third term Of the
Presidency, the INrELllaEscEE was again
read out OF the party by somd Of it's MEM
bers who took another view, and by still
others who feared that the tuft-hunting
might not be 30 good under tho next regi-
me. Some irsttul patriots were so torn up
that it did not seen possible that they
ever would or could solicit the ~INrELLl.
aENcrH's influence to further their aspira-
tons, and yet in due time they concluded
that probably they were mistaken whom
they suspected the IyrELLldEscEg Of hay
ing gone wrong.
In the preliminary presidential cam
paign Of 1854 there were some weak
kneed brethren who proIesaed to be in IA
vor Of Mr.. Blaine and yet found great
fault with the 1NTELLIGENcxR for trying to
make sure that the Blaine sentiment Of
West Virginia should find adequate ex-
preston in the national convention.
Those were the proiessed Blaine men who
thought it would all go well anyhow, and
were much grisved to see that the 1NTRLL-
aEScER wasn't making ita campaign on
TINT assumption.
The anti. Blaine men who had the fair
ness and the courage to make their cppo-
sition known mover had much respect for
those more careful ones who wanted to
make fair weather whichever way tho
wind might blow. Nh. Blaine got all that
West Virginia had to give, and 1t is our
deliberate conviction that he wouldn't
have got any OF it If his friends had
sweetly assumed that he would be given
all without any effort in that behalf. II
Mr.. Blaine had been elected We are quite
sure there would have been some more
conversions.
The ISTE%LLloENcEE's friends will re-
member that 1t has not been The practice
Of this newspaper to call q party caucus
before it yentured TO advance an opinion
or to publish the news touching any mat
ter Of public interest. And tho friends
OF the paper who look Tor about the same
line Of conduct in future, will not be likely
to be disappointed. We are sorry for
those who would do 80 much better with
the paper il they were burdened with it,
but We really don't see what We can do
for them unless they have the ready
money to buy a good newspaper at a
good price.
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